The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCKSome of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
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Self-plagiarism is style.
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.
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The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema.
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In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.
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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
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A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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Never turn your back on a friend.
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